stblob
Prominent Member
The only ghost I see is the Rolls Royce.
Is that the lecture series for young people?There's an interesting book called Supersense by Bruce Hood
He delivered the 2011 Christmas lecture to the Royal Society
Carried on getting dressed and went downstairs, whilst putting my boots on it started again. It woke the mrs up and she went into the front room but again nothing to see, she turned the actual power switch off and it stopped then.
I find people who believe in ghosts almost as annoying as those who claim to have seen one, what say you?
To dismiss it all as a ridiculous annoyance is bizarre and backward.
I'd say it's actually rather scientific to go with the view that it's very unlikely...
Ghosts, like flying saucers or whatever are so much more likely to be down to irrational characteristics of the human mind than the alternative.
Sure we can't say for 100% certain, but there are some people who say they have certainly seen a ghost, other that say they can communicate with spirits etc... it's ridiculous and a great way for them to make money or get attention, the others have just managed to convince themselves that what they saw was a ghost - this is purely because of people talking about ghosts and the whole idea/concept being in your mind. You are likely to attribute it to something if you have no other explanation.
With respect, You're missing my point, because I didn't make it clearly.
There are absolute charlatons - yes.
There are deluded people - yes.
There are people who like to scare themselves - yes.
There are people who tell their children fairy stories - yes.
Totally agree.
However, I and others I know have had unexplained experiences.
For some "scientist" to tell me I am just one of the above is insulting.
But, it actually tells me they are a bad scientist. I want science to investigate what is actually going on in those case that can't be simply dismissed.
Aah, it's all nonsense will not do.
However, I and others I know have had unexplained experiences.
What on earth are you talking about?
No, I don't mean anything like that.
Personally I haven't seen one with my own eyes and through my own experiences, so how can I possibly believe in them?
What are we also to make of Mediums then? These people who believe they can communicate with the dead?
Berties
You know I think you're a buffoon and a troll. I've told you directly.
I still think that. I won't be responding further.
VLF.
Infrasonic waves could be the explanation for ghostly apparitions.......
In 1998 Vic Tandy, a lecturer at Coventry University, discovered that the haunting of a laboratory was not caused by a ghost with a passion for science, but by a 19 Hertz infrasound wave created by an extractor fan
A spook had been seen in the laboratory But it seems that that the infrasonic waves in the room may have been responsible by making peoples eyeballs vibrate, causing blurring of their vision and hallucinations at the edges of their visual field. Since exorcising the ghost in the laboratory, Vic Tandy has gone on to discover that infrasound waves were also the cause of the supposed hauntings of a 14th century cellar in Coventry.
However, I and others I know have had unexplained experiences.
For some "scientist" to tell me I am just one of the above is insulting.
But, it actually tells me they are a bad scientist. I want science to investigate what is actually going on in those case that can't be simply dismissed.